Sway vs XCEED: which ticketing platform for your event?

XCEED is a nightlife discovery and ticketing app used by clubs and promoters, especially in France in Sway's event sample. Sway is an app and a ticketing platform built for electronic music: line-ups, set times, door check-in, and organiser tools in one place.

Both can sell a paid ticket. The difference sits in what is published about the fee, when the money reaches you, and whether you want a venue box office, a large marketplace, or a scene app with line-ups and discovery.

The XCEED notes below match what is public in November 2026. Essential is free. Premium is €29 per month billed annually, or €49 billed monthly. Pro is €44 per month billed annually, or €59 billed monthly. If fees are passed to the customer, XCEED's public line is that you sell €10 and get €10. If you absorb fees, the public page says it can be as little as 3% — that is a floor, not a single rate this page treats as fixed. A published example: on a £20 ticket the customer fee is £1.60 and the payout is £20.00. A verified marketplace listing can add a 15% marketing referral fee (and €0.07 per unique free booking). If your contract says something else, your contract wins.

A published example next to Sway

On Sway, the buyer pays 3% + €0.30 per paid ticket, VAT included, and you receive the price you set. On a €20 ticket that is €0.90 for the buyer and €20.00 for you.

On XCEED, the published example is a £20 ticket: the customer fee is £1.60 and you receive £20.00 when fees are passed to the buyer. This page does not convert pounds into euros. Monthly software plans (Essential free, Premium and Pro as published) sit beside that ticket example. The public «as little as 3%» line for absorbed fees is a floor, not a figure this page treats as your rate.

In the US, the price a buyer sees on Sway is all-in: the event page shows the price with fees included. In US dollars the service fee is 4.5% + $0.35 per paid ticket.

Tools, discovery and the scene

Sway puts together what an electronic-music team needs: tickets (early bird, promo codes, pay-in-instalments), order control (resend, refund), door check-in and offline scanners, guest list, line-up and set times, sales insights, photo galleries, ambassadors, and Swapy to ask how a night is selling or to draft a campaign. Creating a page and an event is free. Email campaigns, custom push notifications and discovery boosts are growth tools on paid plans. Swapy is free on every plan, Basic included.

XCEED is a nightlife discovery app with ticketing and paid software plans. People can find clubs and nights there. Sway is also a discovery app, built around electronic-music line-ups and set times together with organiser tools. They are two different networks.

When to choose Sway, and when to stay on XCEED

Sway makes sense if you want a published buyer fee, the full ticket price in your account within a week — including before the event — and ticketing, check-in, line-up, galleries, ambassadors and an assistant in one place, on an app ravers use to find electronic events.

XCEED can be the better fit if your crowd already finds nights in that app, you want a nightlife marketplace listing, or a monthly software plan with pass-through fees matches how you sell.

Both can be the right fit. It depends on your contract, where people already buy, and what you want to keep: the ticket price, the cash-flow calendar, or a particular discovery network.

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